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I. D. FORD. I BARBED WIRE FENCE.

Patented Feb. 1'7, 1885.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FRANKLIN D. FORD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CORNELIUS S. SWEETLAND, OF SAME PLACE.

BARBED-WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,454, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed May 19, 1884. (No model.)

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To these ends the invention consists in making a bend or oii'set in a single or double strand fence -wire, and twisting around the same in a peculiar manner a barb having two prongs or points, all as will hereinafter be more fully described, and then set forth in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a single-strand fence-wire having a barb twisted around the same in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a double fence-wire having a barb applied in the same way as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a modification showing the formation of a double turnin the barb-wire before it terminates in the prongs.

The numeral 1 denotes a fence-wire in which are formed bends, offsets, or curvatures 3o 2 at all points where barbs are to be located.

Each barb is formed of a piece of wire, which terminates in pointed end portions that extend at right angles to the fence-wire and constitute prongs 3. or the barbs proper, as will be readily understood.

Informing the barb the wire is twisted or coiled several times around the bend or offset in the fence-wire, so as to form convolutions 4, that closely embrace or clasp said off- 0 set or bend. From this point the free or uncoiled portionof the wire located beyond the portion that closely embraces the offset in the fence-Wire in the aforesaid manner is returned or bent obliquely over the exterior of the coils lying directly on the fence-wire and in an opposite direction from the other terminal prong of the barb, as will be readily apparent.

The above description refers particularly to Fig. 1, in which is represented a single-strand fence wire that has an offset or bend for receiving two coils or convolutions of the barbwire, the extremities of which are pointed and extend at right angles to the fence-wire on the: same side thereof. A barb held on a fence-Wire by doubly twisting the same around an offset thereon and passing the end portion of the barb-wire obliquely over said twists or loops, so as to bring both points or prongs in line. or nearly so, with each other, will be retained so securely or efiectually that no pressure brought to bear upon the same can by any possible means move the same either longitudinally or axially.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the adaptation of a barb shaped as shown in Fig'. 1 to a double or twisted strand fencewire, the latter having a suitable offset or bend made therein. In Fig. 3 a more secure or absolute lock is obtained by causing the barb-wire to make a double turnaround the fence-wire before terminating in the prongs or points. These additional turns of the barlrwire are denoted by the numeral S, and are used in addition to the main convolutions that embrace the offset or bend in thefenoe-wire.

I am aware of the existence of a barbed fence-wire in which a short kink or bend in a wire strand receives a wire barb that is provided with two coils encircling the wire strand at each extremity of the bend therein, and connected together by the middle portion of two points of the barb projecting from near the extremities of said bend. Such formation I disclaim, as it forms no part of my invert tion.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with the fence-wire provided with a bend or offset, of the barb havand closelyembracing the fence-wire, and another coil or convolution passing obliquely over the coils that lie directly on the fencewire, and the points of the barb extending in the same line, or nearly so, from the fence wire, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANKLIN D. FORD. Witnesses:

GEo. W. LANPHEAR, EDWARD H. Bnreos.

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